Gaddafi set to produce new Lockerbie evidence

Colonel Gaddafi is expected to produce evidence he claims will clear the man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing.

Colonel Gaddafi is expected to produce evidence today which he claims will clear the man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing.

Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi, 48, was convicted on Wednesday of planting the bomb that blew up a Pan Am airliner over the Scottish town in December 1988.

He was sentenced to life imprisonment with no prospect of parole for 20 years and has 14 days to appeal.

Co-defendant Al Amin Khalifa Fhimah was cleared and returned to Libya on Thursday.

Three judges at the special Scottish court in the Netherlands found there was no conclusive evidence against Fhimah, 44, who was a manager for Libyan Arab Airlines in Malta at the time the bomb-laden suitcase entered the baggage system that eventually loaded it on to the Pan Am jet.

The Libyan leader has said he has new evidence which will help clear Al Megrahi.

Libya has always denied any government involvement in the Lockerbie bombing.

And the Scottish law professor who helped set up the Lockerbie trial claimed the real bombers of Pan Am flight 103 were Syrian-based terrorists.

Professor Robert Black said: "It was only after Libya agreed to the trial that I was able to take a hard look at the evidence available.

"I formed the view then that the case against the Libyans was a weak one. And I still think so today. "